It depends on how often it has to be done. I rather have one 8 hour quest than 2 4 hour quests.I usually loose a lot of time in events because the next quest is a 2 hour quest - but I have to got to work - and will be back 9 hours later.

Since when I go to work, I have no access to the game, the 8 hour tasks suit me well. Same as when I head off to bed. They have their place. I love to imagine that the longer tasks have a higher chance of dropping the token that I need, but I haven't actually checked that.

Not all of us have no work life and can fire up the game every hour or two like I can.

Yes, it is frustrating to those of us who CAN, but as you can see from these replies... well, right now my grumpy is contained to not only are the quests so long, but they are LONG AND RARE drops. Since the dev team has always refused to share just what the drop rates for the 'drop types' are it is very hard to call BS on them. Not that this current batch of 'Fresh out of School' script kiddies have a clue anyway.